Find me at......, Where can people find you once the server shuts down Options

[tedstryk]

I'm on Twitter/X @tedstryk (for now at least)
The following accounts are ones I don't use much but would if a community developed. I am also @tedstryk on Threads and Bluesky. I am @tedstryk.mastadon.social and @tedstryk on Discord.

I am @tedstryk on Instagram, but I only use that account for pictures from my personal life.

[ugordan]

I don't know what happens in the paywalled "L2" area but I don't know of anything specific to planetary. From what's implied, people posting there, if they have real inside information, are breaking their project rules of the road at a minimum, if they're not guilty of actual ITAR/EAR violations. IMHO even some of the stuff posted in the public areas (by one NASA insider in particular) is skirting the rules.

So in that regard it's a good source of information, although the SNR is extremely low (mostly from fanboys of a company with X in its name). I've more or less given up posting there (pearls before swine, as they say.) YMMV.

Yes, NSF has got nowhere near the S/N ratio of this forum. In terms of L2 content, you're not really missing out on much, it's mostly a few regular NASA/industry insiders giving a heads-up on something that'll (probably) become public some time later, anyways. I don't think I've seen violations of ITAR and such over my stay there (not that I really know how strict ITAR really is), the OG posters themselves are aware of just how much info they can share so it's usually carefully worded. I get the impression the creator of the site gets even more info than what those L2 insiders provide, but is threading the needle of not posting too much sensitive/proprietary info.

In general, NSF is a much more rocket-oriented than a science-oriented site like UMSF, even though they do have a Space Science section. I'm glad I see some of the folks around here posting there, like Phil Stooke and vjkane.
Sad part is, for example for Juno Galilean flybys, all I could really do there is link to UMSF image wizards' posts here. Not sure how that'll work out in the future.


I'd say the site could have had the potential of carrying on the torch of UMSF, were it not for those very same fanboys (not just of the X company).

[neville thompson]

You can find me just about everywhere lol

FACEBOOK (Personal)
FACEBOOK (Gigapans)
FACEBOOK-MMPU
INSTAGRAM
gigapan.com
GIGAmacro.com
360cities.com
flickr
X
reddit.com
The Cydonia Institute
YOUTUBE
MASTODON
and now
DISCORD-UMSF

[john_s]

Just joined UMSF-Discord

John

[Phil Stooke]

Good show, John! It's not the same but will do for now and may serve to keep people together until a more suitable solution emerges. I will post things there and (for lunar missions) on NSF and on Mastodon (link in sig)

Phil

[charborob]

I tried going on Discord, but I can't find UMSF-Discord. Could someone maybe PM me and explain. Thanks.

[Explorer1]

I tried going on Discord, but I can't find UMSF-Discord. Could someone maybe PM me and explain. Thanks.

From Doug's announcement post last month:
https://discord.com/invite/hp3g3TKVRW

[charborob]

From Doug's announcement post last month:
https://discord.com/invite/hp3g3TKVRW

Yes, it worked, thanks.

[Floyd]

Do I need to set up a Discord account first?

[deedan06]

Yes

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I'm now on Discord.
I'm also on Twitter/X as @bjorn_jons but I have been rather inactive there recently.

I have also been (mainly) lurking in the OpenPlanetary community on Slack, see https://www.openplanetary.org/ . There is useful information there for advanced image processing amateurs (for me it's been SPICE, ISIS3 and PDS in particular). There is also an OpenPlanetary forum/discussion board but it's been rather inactive.

I might also join Mastodon, Bluesky (or something else) if an image processing community develops there.

I'm also on Facebook but I rarely use it for space-related stuff. When I do it's usually non-technical.

[neo56]

I joined the Discord forum.

You can also find me on:
- Bluesky as @thomasappere.bsky.social
- Mastodon as @thomas_appere
- Twitter as @thomas_appere

I'm also on Instagram @thomas_appere

[scalbers]

My homepage with Mars and other Earth and Space images is here:

https://stevealbers.net

Also joined the Discord party.

[Glevesque]

My homepage with Mars and other Earth and Space images is here:

https://stevealbers.net

Also joined the Discord party.

Do you have a link to select through Sol the images that you assembled and reworked? I have already used some in volume 2 (including that of Sol 1000)

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Aurais-tu un liens pour sélectionner par Sol les images que tu as assemblées et retravaillée. J'ai déjà utilisée certaines dans le tome 2 (dont celle du Sol 1000)

[fredk]

I'll look at the discord site and may join that.

Otherwise all I participate in that's vaguely related is Cloudy Nights as timelapser (you may recognize my avatar image). That's mostly amateur astronomy and has only one rather sad forum related to space exploration.